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The timber met with was mostly spruce and this varies from the stunted 

 variety in the muskegs to trees up to twelve (12) inches in diameter and over 

 on the drier ground. Owing to the irregular nature of the areas of merchantable 

 timber it is impossible to form an accurate estimate of the percentage of the 

 spruce areas containing merchantable timber, but we would say at a rough 

 estimate about fifteen per cent, or twenty per cent. The jack pine is nearly all 

 too small to be of commercial value as tie timber. The largest areas of jack pine 

 of merchantable size being on the base line between the lake crossed in the sixty- 

 eighth (68th) mile and the lake in the seventieth (70th) mile and on the Meridian 

 Line north of the twenty-first (21st) mile, also on the Base Line east of Kap- 

 kichegimaga Lake there is a certain amount of jack pine of merchantable size. 

 Balsam, birch and poplar occur but only in isolated places. 



Burnt areas occur as follows: — On the Meridian between the 9th and 10th 

 mile, burnt some years ago; also between 19th and 20th mile, local fire probably 

 two or three years ago, and on the last nile of the meridian, some time since 1919- 

 the timber has been burnt as far as can be seen in all directions except south. 

 On the Base Line between the eigth (8th) mile post O.L.S. Dobie's meridian and 

 Kapkichegimaga Lake the high ground appears to have been burnt several 

 times, probably the last time about twenty years ago. The remainder of the 

 line passes through green timber. Off the line an area has been burnt this year 

 around the lake west of the eleventh mile post on the Meridian. 



Water routes used with connecting portages are indicated on the map with 

 the exception of one passing through Wright Lake to Kawinogans Lake. An 

 attempt was made to use the southerly branch of the river which enters the lake 

 due south of Mileage 52}/^ (fifty-two and a half) but this route was found im- 

 possible. It was also found that the lake in which the fifty-six (56) mile point 

 came has its outlets as shown and not as shown on the map by the Topographical 

 survey of Canada. 



Gam^ of any kind appears to be very scarce, only two or three moose and 

 two bears being seen during the whole course of the survey. Fish, including; 

 pike and pickerel, are fairly plentiful in most of the lakes. 



Appendix No. 32 



Extract from a Traverse of the Albany River and Opichuan River from Lake 

 St. Joseph to the Ogoki River, by James S. Dobie, O.L.S. , 1929. 



The survey commenced where the south shore of the Albany River is inter- 

 sected by the meridian line run by James Benner, O.L.S. in 1923, a short distance 

 east of Lake St. Joseph. The Albany River was surveyed as far as the mouth of 

 the Opichuan River. The survey was then carried up the Opichuan River, 

 through Kagianagami Lake and Mahamo Lake, and up the Ogoki River to 

 connect with the survey of the Ogoki River made by myself in 1926. The 

 survey was also carried up into Eabamet Lake which was traversed with the 

 exception of the shore of the Fort Hope Indian Reserve which had been traversed 

 when this Indian Reserve was surveyed in 1910. The corners of the Fort Hope 

 Indian Reserve were located and connected with the survey. The Albany River 

 between Lake St. Joseph and Fort Hope flows through several large lake expan- 

 sions and outline traverses of both sides of these lakes were made. 



The method of conducting the survey was by transit and stadia as described 

 in previous years. Every effort was made to reduce the errors in reading dis- 



